Casement sash with concealed shades



Oct. 10, 1933. 1.. DONOSA CASEMENT SASH WITH CONCEALED SHADES Filed June 13, 1932 Patented Oct. 10, 1933 UNITED STATES OASEMENT SASH WITH CONCEALED SHADES Leopold Donosa, Philadelphia, Pa.

Application June 13, 1932. Serial No. 616,870

9 Claims.

The object of the invention is to provide improvements in window sash in general, but more specifically in casement sash upon which adjustable shades are carried.

Another object more specifically is to provide the combination of a casement sash, having its top rail so recessed as to receive and rotatably support a roller shade, with means to effectually cover and conceal the otherwise open side of said recess, the shape and depth of said recess and said cover means being such as to permit a shade to be actuated into and from within said recess substantially in the plane of the near side of said sash, even though the tangential portion of such shade overhangs its rolled portion and hangs therefrom free from contact with said sash.

The advantage of such a construction, aside from presenting a more pleasing appearance than when the shade is fully exposed upon the near surface of a sash, lies in the fact that the shade offers no obstruction or interference to the full opening, and the folding or swinging, of the sash around, upon and in parallelism with a neighboring sash, a condition which is impossible when one or both of the shades carried by such sash are superimposed upon and project freely from the said near sides of the latter.

With these and other objects in mind, the present invention comprises further details of construction and operation which are fully brought out in the following description, when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is an elevational view of a casement sash'comprising one embodiment of the invention; Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary portion of the upper right hand corner of the same with portions of the cover means and the shade broken away; Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4 is a top plan view of two adjacent sashes of the improved construction swung or folded one upon the other, one being in closed and the other being in full open position.

Referring to the drawing, a representative casement sash of any desired shape and construction is shown as comprising top, bottom and oppositely positioned side rails, 1, 2 and 3, respectively, surrounding the usual pane of glass 4, and the top rail being mortised or otherwise secured to the side rails, as indicated by the dotted line 5.

Said top rail is in practice of sufficient thick ness to permit its being hollowed so as to pro vide an elongated recess 6, the innermost portion of which is preferably (though not necessarily) semi-cylindrical in shape, while its upper and lowermost surfaces 7 and 8 are flat and parallel, divergent, rounded, or otherwise, as may be desired. To the end surfaces 9 of said recess are secured any well-known form of brackets 10,- between which (one only being shown)" is rotatabiy supported a roller 11 carrying a shade 12, which in practice comprises usually both a coiled portion 13 and a suspended portion 14, which is tangential to said coiled portion, as shown in Fig. 3.

The tangential portion of said shade is intended to hang in relatively close proximity to, but preferably free from actual contact with the near surface 15 of the sash, though when in its lowermost or practically unwound condition said shade may closely approachor even contact lightly with said shade surface. 'In any case, the opening of the shade-housing recess is concealed by means of a cover 16 or apron, which is preferably carried by and suspended from the surface of the sash adjacent to the upper edge of the recess at 17, and below this point extends downwardly in sufficiently spaced relation with the normally inner surface of the sash, to permit the shade to pass freely therethrough as it is raised and lowered in the usual manner.

Said cover may be made of any desired material such as metal, wood, celluloid, pressed paper, or in fact any other suitable substance. It may be secured in operative position by means of screws, snaps, slots, or in any other desired manner. Also, instead of being merely a plain cover meme her, it may be ornamented in any manner adapted to harmonize with the mode or period of the nearby furniture and hangings, such as by painting, enameling, engraving, embossing, or otherwise. In any such case, said cover may be removed at will for the purpose of replacing or entirely removing a shade from said recess, and if desired said cover may be employed as a support for other hangings for the window, such as draperies of various sorts. As the said cover is usually suspended about one-quarter of an inch from the adjacent surface of the sash, there is sufiicient clearance for the stiffened lower edge portion 18 of the shade to pass upwardly behind the same, with the result that whenever desired there is no suggestion of the presence of a shade edge portion suspended or floating free from contact with the sash, it is to be understood that said cover might be attached at its ends only, or at its ends and along one side, or it might be attached to said sash along all of its end and 1. 5

side edge portions and be provided with a slot or with a slit, one side of which if distorted will provide an opening through which the shade can extend. Said shade and cover may also extend along the bottom or the side rails, or along anintermediate rail, instead of along the top rail, if desired.

Having thus described m invention, What I claim and desire to protect by Letters Patent of the United States is:-

1. The combination of a casement sash, comprising a rail having a face surface provided with a recess, and a roll shade operatively supported therein so that its free edge portion can be with drawn tangentially therefrom parallel, and free from engagement, with the adjacent face surface of said sash.

2. The combination of a casement sash, comprising a rail provided with a recess in one face, a roll shade operatively supported therein so that its free edge portion can be withdrawn tangentially therefrom parallel, and free from engagement, with the adjacent faceof said sash, and a cover for said recess having an edge portion positioned in spaced relation with the adjacent outer surface of said sash, to permit the free movement of the shade between said cover and said adjacent sura face surface provided with an elongated recess of sufiicient depth to approximately just house a roll shade, so that the tangential portion of the shade upon being wound and unwound moves parallel, and in but slightly spaced relation, with the outer plane face surface of the sash, and a cover secured to said sash, spamn'ng said recess and having its free edge portion terminating in relatively slight spaced relation with another edge of the recess, to permit the tangential portion of the shade to pass freely between said sash and 'said'cover.

5. A casement saSh cOmpriSin'g a rail having a face surface provided with an elongated recess of sufiicient depth to approximately just house a roll shade, so that the tangential portion of the shade uponbeing wound and unwound moves parallel, and in but slightly spaced relation, with the outer plane face surface of the sash, and a cover secured to said sash adjacent to the upper edge of said recess, spanning said recess and having its free edgeportion overlapping and terminating in but slight spaced relation with the outer surface of said sash adjacent to the lower edge of said recess.

6. The combination of a pair of casement sashes pivotally mounted to swing upon parallel axes, one sash being adapted to swing across, and closely parallel with the other sash when the latter is in closed position, one of said sashes being provided with a recess in the normal inner face of one of its rails when in closed position, and a roll shade in such recess adapted to wind and unwind tangentially and closely parallel with said inner surface.

'7. The combination of a casement sash, comprising a rail provided with a recess, a roll shade operatively supported therein, and a cover for said recess having an edge portion positioned in spaced relation with the adjacent outer surface of said sash, to permit the free movement of the shade between the cover and said adjacent ase 8. The combination of a casement sash, comprising a rail provided with a recess, a roll shade operatively supported therein, and a cover for said recess carried by said sash and having a portion spaced from said rail sumcienuy to permit the shade to wind into, and unwind from Within, said recess.

9. The combination of a casement sash, comprising arail provided with a recess, a roll shade operatively supported therein 'and a cover for said recess carriedby said sash andhaving an unattached longitudinal free edge portion spaced from said rail siifiiciently to permit the shade to wind into, and unwind from within, 'said recess.

LEOPOLD DON'OSA. 

